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This paper examines the impact of positive public good spillovers on international capital tax competition in a spatial economy with two countries imperfectly integrated and with different levels of productivity.

An alternative measure for gross job flows, incorporating within plant job reallocation, is proposed. The paper shows new results on gross job flows and considers some underlining determinants not analyzed before.

The paper examines the spillover and linkage effects from the presence of foreign firms in the Indian pharmaceutical industry. A comprehensive panel data consisting of nearly 200 firms from 1989 to 2000 was used in the current study.

This paper uses the growth accounting policy framework to discuss the mechanisms through which immigration can impact economic growth. It reviews the contemporary literature with a view to identifying how immigration policy may be adjusted to improve the potential returns to growth from immigration in New Zealand.

According to the reports findings, responses to a statewide representative telephone survey show that a majority of Arizonans see science and technology research as a source of high-paying jobs and are every bit as interested in science and technology as leaders are.

This report builds on earlier Pew Center analyses of the state role in climate policy development. The proliferation of RPSs at the state level provides real-world models of whether a federal RPS may be a feasible option to increase the nation’s use of renewable energy sources as part of a larger energy and climate change policy. In addition to examining challenges and opportunities inherent in policy design and implementation, the report includes case studies of five states: Texas, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Massachusetts, and Nevada.

The purpose of this report is to provide an alternative perspective on the California Enterprise Zone program which has been serving the state since 1984. According to the author, a recent report by the California Budget Project addresses the increasing cost of the Enterprise Zone program in California and calls attention to some of the shortcomings in the administration of the program without evaluating any of the benefits.

This report reviews state policy options for supporting asset development. The report offers ideas to broaden savings and asset ownership, which includes a range of simple proposals that may have a significant impact with little associated cost; some medium cost ideas; and others that, with a somewhat larger investment, would potentially alter the longer-term outlooks and
prospects of millions of struggling Americans, according to the authors.

Panel data econometric methods are used to investigate how the risk of death from acute myocardial infarction (AMI) varies with macroeconomic conditions after controlling for demographic factors, fixed state characteristics, general time effects and state-specific time trends. The sample includes residents of the 20 largest states over the 1979 to 1998 period.

This paper articulates a theory of the conditions under which the alignment between individual and collective interests generates sustainable competitive advantage. The analysis indicates the need to consider mitivational processes as a complement to current resource and competence-based approaches in a comprehensive theory of competitive advantage.